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If anyone can speed the pace of innovation it’s mighty @Rob__Miller - congratulations, Rob, on the launch of @BILCambridge!
Today we launch the Bennett Innovation Lab
@BILCambridge. Its mission comes from a simple imperative: if the UK wants to lead the industries of the future, we must build hardware-intensive technologies at unprecedented speed. #ActionThisDay
Bennett Innovation Lab retweeted
Congratulations to Rob and team for reaching this terrific milestone
Today we launch the Bennett Innovation Lab
@BILCambridge. Its mission comes from a simple imperative: if the UK wants to lead the industries of the future, we must build hardware-intensive technologies at unprecedented speed. #ActionThisDay
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Last night in London, we launched our latest policy paper, A New National Purpose: Reimagining UK Science and Technology.
Backed by leading voices, the paper calls for a new public R&D network, putting scientists in charge & backing breakthrough discoveries.
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Many congrats to all at the Bennett Innovation lab - and here is to supporting their vital mission!
Today we launch the Bennett Innovation Lab
@BILCambridge. Its mission comes from a simple imperative: if the UK wants to lead the industries of the future, we must build hardware-intensive technologies at unprecedented speed. #ActionThisDay
Yesterday felt like a significant moment for the UK.
The @InstituteGC Disruptive Invention Labs report makes a powerful case: if the UK wants to lead industries of the future, we need new institutions built for autonomy, speed & breakthrough invention — not incremental progress
Each year we will launch 2 to 3 bold missions across aviation, defence, and energy, moving from concept to hardware in weeks, not years.
And the positive energy in the room tells us that the urgency of this mission is understood.
With BIL — and the Lovelace Labs to come — momentum is building for a new era of UK innovation.
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Today we launch the Bennett Innovation Lab (BIL).
BIL was born from a simple but urgent strategic imperative: if the UK wants to own the industries of the future, we must be able to build hardware-intensive technologies at unprecedented speed...
Tonight, @Rob__Miller will speak at the @InstituteGC launch of their new paper on disruptive innovation labs at @Ri_Science, where he will announce the launch of BIL alongside Co-Director Elliott Grant...
It feels as though the UK is beginning to embrace a new model of growth: taking risks, backing talent and building institutions built for speed.
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Tonight, @Rob__Miller will speak at the @InstituteGC launch of their new paper on disruptive innovation labs at @Ri_Science, where he will announce the launch of BIL alongside Co-Director Elliott Grant...
BIL extends this tradition into the machine-learning era: fusing Frontier AI with rapid build–test loops to accelerate hardware breakthroughs in energy, defence and aviation...
Sitting at the heart of the New @whittlelab in Cambridge — a £58M investment completed this October — BIL embeds disruptive innovation capability inside one of the world’s most advanced centres of aerospace, energy and defence research...
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Today we launch the Bennett Innovation Lab
@BILCambridge. Its mission comes from a simple imperative: if the UK wants to lead the industries of the future, we must build hardware-intensive technologies at unprecedented speed. #ActionThisDay
Scottish physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt & his assistant Arnold Wilkins pioneered radar, often working under immense pressure and secrecy. Watson-Watt took the initial professional risk of pitching his theory - that radio waves could locate aircraft - to the Air Ministry in 1935
The inspiration came after Wilkins had debunked the idea that the Germans could develop a ‘death ray’ - but realised that radio waves could be used instead to detect aircraft.
On 20 November, we’ll be powering up the insights again.
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